Gombe State received N26 billion as grants for its achievements under the performance-based grant component of the World Bank-assisted States Fiscal Transparency, Accountability and Sustainability programme in four years.
The Commissioner for Finance and Economic Development, Mr Muhammad Magaji, made this known in Gombe on Tuesday shortly after the inaugural State Executive Council meeting.
Magaji noted that the grants were attracted as a result of the fiscal transparency, accountability and sustainability (SFTAS) programme reforms implemented in the state.
”The various reforms initiated by the Gov. Inuwa Yahaya made the state transparent enough to attract such grants.
”The grant has helped the state government execute a good number of projects from infrastructure to improved healthcare amongst others which had impacted positively on the lives of the people of the state.
“We were able to implement the SFTAS reforms and earned over N26 billion for Gombe State in grants.
“The grant is between 2019 and 2023, that’s the first administration of Gov. Yahaya and it had helped in executing good projects for the benefit of the people,” he said.
He said this meant that Gombe State has been transparent and accountable, having the public see the activities of the government without hiding anything.
“We have initiated reforms and abided by them. Our account books are there for everyone to see according to the national chart of accounts.
“We publish our annual accounts for the state government. Our budgets are in order and also published on time and regularly for everyone to see.”
